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About Keizertimes. (Salem, Or.) 1979-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 27, 2019)
SEPTEMBER 27, 2019, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A3 Census push begins at city council By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes Organizers of the U.S. Census are hoping Keize- rites do a bit better this time around. Kirstin Stein, a partnership specialist with the U.S. Cen- sus Bureau, used data as a call to arms when it comes to re- sponding to the U.S. Census in 2020. “Not responding means millions and millions of dol- lars Oregon doesn’t get,” Stein said. “People don’t understand the cost of not responding.” Only three-quarters of city residents participated in the 2010 Census count and that means we left money on the table when it came to federal funding, to the tune of more than $29 million in the past decade. Every 10 years, the U.S. Government is required to execute a national census, a count of all the country’s res- idents, that informs a wide variety of local, state and na- tional matters. “It helps determine how much money will be put into Head Start or school break- fast programs and informs decisions about where to put schools and hospitals,” Stein said. Perhaps most important- ly, the numbers are used to properly distribute the 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives. The Census Bureau is making efforts to ease the process of responding. Start- ing March 12, 2020, residents will be able to respond to the Census online, by phone and on paper. In-person cen- sus-takers will also visit the addresses of those who don’t respond via one of the self-re- sponse methods. All mailed items will be available in En- glish and Spanish, but online responses and other methods will be offered in more than a dozen languages. Every pub- lic library will also be outfi t- ted with a station to complete the Census form. Combined with a number of limitations on disclosure of Census data – ranging from lifetime oaths to laws outright prohibiting it – there are few- er excuses available for not participating. Stein said several segments of the population continue to be hard to reach or elicit responses from, they include: renters, seniors, foreign-born residents, homeless residents and migrant workers. Ac- counting for children, espe- cially those living with grand- parents, has also proven tough. The type of information gathered during Census ef- forts include: name, address, gender, race, phone numbers, ages, date of birth, names of others living at the same ad- dresses and the relationships between individuals. While much political hay was made over the possible inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 Census, it will not be in- cluded this time around. In addition to all the ef- forts to reach new responders, Stein said there are other ways to get involved. “We’re still recruiting enu- merators to knock on doors and forming Complete Count Committees to help with get- ting the word out,” she said. Keizer & Salem’s Go-To-Guy for Buying & Selling TALK TO BOB 2016 Call or Text MERCHANT 503-983-4086 3975 River Rd N Suite 3 - Keizer bobshack1@gmail.com OF THE YEAR 2018-19 K EIZER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PRESIDENT KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald The Big Toy at Keizer Rapids Park is currently closed for improvements, but regular visitors can look forward to more shade on hot, sunny days when it reopens. The city is installing shade sails over some of the most fre- quently used spaces. In the photo above, contractors drill holes for the posts that will anchor the sails. The project is being paid for with money from a parks ser- vices fee collected on utility bills and a donation from the Keizer Parks Foundation. Community library fall book sale Oct. 4-5 Keizer Community Library will host its annual fall book sale the fi rst week of October. The sale runs Fri- day, Oct. 4, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 5, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Keizer Civic Cen- ter, 930 Chemawa Road N.E. All the funds raised at this sale go to support Keizer Com- The go-to Realtor with over 20 years in the real estate & mortgage lending industry K EIZER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Setting sails BOB SHACKELFORD Broker Bob Shackelford is a licensed real estate broker in Oregon. munity Library operations.. Hardcover books, audio- books, CDs and DVD’s are $1 each and paperback books and VHS tapes are 50¢ each. There is special pricing for a few select items. During bargain hour, from 4 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, shoppers can fi ll a grocery bag for only $4 or a box for $5. 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